Word: uprightly
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...only the world's greatest contralto and one of the very great voices of all time, she is also a dedicated character, devoutly simple, calm, religious. Manifest in the tranquil architecture of her face is her constant submission to the "Spirit, that dost prefer before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...
...Hoagy honky-tonks around on a baby upright ("It's got that nice chuckachucka tone"), makes palaver with one Sherlee Turner. He also has another pianist, Buddy Cole, because he cannot play, sing and read lyrics at the same time. And he has to read the lyrics because he never learned to remember them, even his own. (He never learned to read music, either...
...swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright man of Mr. Garfield. After his redemption, a few of his still dishonest associates have to be disposed of in some last-reel gunplay...
...whole world turned over and came upright...